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Pietro Cicuta and Ulrich Keyser promoted to Professor

9 June 2016

It was announced today that Pietro Cicuta and Ulrich Keyser have been promoted to Professor. Many congratulations to them both, very well deserved!

Nick Bell and Ulrich Keyser win Helmholtz Price

29 April 2016

The identification and quantification of proteins in complex mixtures using nanopore sensing with high specificity was published by Nicholas Bell and Ulrich Keyser in a recent article in Nature Nanotechnology. Their combination of DNA nanotechnology with nanopore based detection of single molecules allowed for the...

Dr Alex Crick wins prize for PhD thesis

27 April 2016

Alex Crick has been awarded the Clare Hall prize (Salje Medal) for his PhD thesis. He's also informed us that he has recently passed his first set of patent law exams.

Nanopore sensors for multiplexed protein identification

22 April 2016

Nanopore sensing is a burgeoning field with many potential applications such as DNA sequencing and protein analysis. The principle is extremely elegant: anything that passes through a tiny hole – the nanopore – filled with salty water will block it briefly. This blockage can be detected by measuring changes in ionic...

Sarah featured in SPIE Biomedical Optics video

29 March 2016

http://spie.org/newsroom/bohndiek-video

Alexander Ohmann wins first poster prize at DPG

20 March 2016

Last week Alexander Ohmann ( Keyser group ) won the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (the German Physical Society) first poster prize (350 Euro) awarded by the Biological Physics Division and sponsored by the Europhysics Letters jornal editor. http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/bp/posterpreis.html In his poster...

Cambridge Fluids Network day 2016

20 March 2016

A Cambridge Fluids Network (CFN) has been establshed to connect all flud dynamics research with the University of Cambridge. An inaugural CFN day will be held in DAMTP, at which Otti Croze has been invited to speak and PhD students Di Jin ( Croze group ) and Yizhou Tan ( Keyser group ) will be presenting posters. The...

JRF awarded to Dr. Jehangir Cama

10 March 2016

Congratulations to Jehangir Cama who has been awarded a Research Fellowship in the Sciences at Clare Hall, Cambridge, from 1st October 2016 for 3 years. He is currently working jointly with Dr. Ulrich Keyser and Dr. Kevin Chalut on developing microfluidic technologies to study stem cell differentiation, while also...

Otti Croze awarded Royal Society Research Grant

3 March 2016

Otti Croze has been awarded a £15k Royal Society Research Grant . The grant will allow to purchase industrial photobioreactors from Variconaqua solutions to be sited in the Algae lab in the Physics of Medicine building and at the Algal Innovation Centre in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The project is entitled "...

Maths in Healthcare Centre recruiting now

10 February 2016

The newly established EPSRC Maths in Healthcare Centre at the University of Cambridge, including Sarah Bohndiek from BSS, is searching for talented postdoctoral fellows with a passion for interdisciplinary research! Find out more about potential projects at: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/cbs31/CMiH/Welcome.html http://...